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vated, and can be used as a border plant with blue Forget-me-not. 

 Propagate by division and seed. 



SWEET WOODRUFF (Asperula odorata). 6-8 in. Bears snowy white 

 terminal clusters of delicate flowers, stems four-sided, leaves in a whorl; 

 scentless when fresh, but when dried has an agreeable perfume; is used 

 to spread among clothes to keep insects from them. Give a moist 

 shaded location; spreads rapidly; divide roots, also propagate by seed. 



TULIP (Tulipa gesneriana, var. L. Immaculee and Pottebakker) . 

 i ft. A hardy bulbous plant with broad leaves and erect lily-shaped 

 flowers; requires a sunny sheltered position; plant six inches apart in 

 October or early November to the depth of three to four inches with a 

 little sand about the bulb to prevent rotting. After blooming, allow 

 leaves to turn brown before lifting; dry slowly out of the sun and store 

 in bags or drawers where the air can circulate. If the garden space is 

 needed at once, take up the bulbs and plant at once in another situation 

 where they can ripen; then store. Can be propagated by seeds or off- 

 sets; either is a slow process. Seeds sown in February in a cold frame, 

 and protected the first winter, may be planted out the following spring, 

 and will bloom in four or five years. The first year they are usually 

 self-colored, but afterward assert their own coloring and markings. 

 New varieties are obtained this way. The small offsets must be removed 

 when the mature plants are taken up, and may be set out in a little 

 nursery where they will mature in a year or two. The Tulip comes in 

 almost every coloring; for other varieties, see Tulip under other lists. 



JUNE 

 WHITE SHRUBS 



ARROWWOOD (Viburnum dentatum). See Snowball. 



DOGWOOD. Flowering (Cornus florida). 8-12 ft. A small tree 

 with wide-spread branches, flowering at the end; and what is mistaken 

 for the blossom, is a whorl of four large leaves of creamy white sur- 

 rounding the true flowers that are inconspicuous; fruit bright scarlet; 

 foliage turns crimson and purple in autumn. Slow growing; give a rich 

 soil and moist situation. 



HOBBLEBUSH, WAYFARING BUSH (Viburnum lantanoides) . 3-5 ft. 

 A native shrub with handsome large leaves and broad flat heads of 

 sterile flowers encircled with showy white flowers; berry turns a bril- 



